Quick Definition
I pluck, pluck off
Strong's Definition
to pull off
Derivation: perhaps akin to the alternate of G138 (αἱρέομαι), and thus to G4951 (σύρω);
KJV Usage: pluck
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τίλλω; imperfect ἔτιλλον; from Homer down; to pluck, pluck off: στραχυας, Mat_12:1; Mar_2:23 (on this cf., p. 524b top); Luk_6:1.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τίλλω tillō 3x
to pull, pluck off, Mat_12:1 ; Mar_2:23 ; Luk_6:1
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
τίλλω ,
[in LXX : Ezr_9:3 , Isa_18:7 , Da LXX Dan_7:4 ( H4803 ) * ;]
to pluck, pluck off: στάχυας , Mat_12:1 , Mar_2:23 , Luk_6:1 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τίλλω [page 634]
τίλλω may be freely translated prepare in P Petr II. 32 (1) .9 (= III. 36 ( d ) .9 ) (Ptol.) κώιδι < . . >α τίλλοντες , preparing hides by plucking the hairs from them : cf. the late P Oxy XVI. 1846 .1 (vi/vii A.D.) θελήσῃ ἡ σῆ γνησία ἀδελφότης τὸ ἁλιευτικὸν ὃ λέγει τὼ τετιλμ̣ε̣(νον ) (?) [κ ]α̣θοσιωμέ (νως ?) παρασκευάσαι φιλοκαληθῆναι ; will your true brother-liness kindly have the damaged fishing-vessel which you speak of repaired? (Edd.).
For the ordinary meaning pluck, pull, as in Mat_12:1 al ., see P Flor III. 321 .47 (iii/A.D.) τίλλαντες χόρτον τοῖς κτῆσι ( l . κτήνεσι ), and ib . 322 .20 (A.D. 258?) τίλλοντες χόρτον (ἀρούρας ) ς̄ , and .36 δεσμεύοντες χόρτον τὰς τειλείσας (ἀρούρας ) ε̄ . Τιλήτωι is found after a lacuna in P Fay 131 .18 (iii/iv A.D.) See also Menander Ἐπιτρέπ . 271 τίλλουσ᾽ ἑαυτῆς τὰς τρίχας , and Herodas II.70 (with A. E. Housman s note in CR xxxvi. (1922), p. 109 f.).
For the uncommon subst. τίλσις , a plucking out, see P Lond 113. 3 .7 (vi/A.D.) σπερμάτων καὶ κοπῆς ἢ καὶ τίλσεως ; for τιλμός in the same sense see P Oxy XIV. 1631 .9 (A.D. 280) τ ]ι̣λμο̣̣ς καλάμου , and ib . 1692 .10 (A.D. 188); and for τίλμα see Herodas II. 69.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
τίλλω "to pluck or pull out" hair, Lat. vello, Il. ; so in Mid., χαίτας τίλλεσθαι "to pluck out one's" hair, Od. with acc. of that "from which" the hair or feathers "are plucked", τίλλειν πέλειαν id=Od. ; κάρα τ. Aesch. ; τ. πλάτανον "to pluck" its leaves "off", Plut. :— Pass. "to have one's hair plucked out", Ar. Mid., τίλλεσθαί τινα "to tear one's hair in sorrow for" any one, Il. metaph. "to pluck, vex, annoy", Lat. vellicare, Pass., Ar.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
τίλλω
[in LXX: Est.9:3, Isa.18:7, Dan LXX 7:4 (מָרַט) * ;]
to pluck, pluck off: στάχυας, Mat.12:1, Mrk.2:23, Luk.6:1.†
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